Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University Observatory stepped, into the breach by constructing the mounting and tubing at cost in its shops while a Connecticut optical firm made the lenses in spare time, benveen work on war contracts. A truck carrying the telescope and all its fixings left Cambridge in January, 1942, on a 3300 mile journey to Tononzintla and arrived a week before the scheduled official dedication. George Z. Dimilreff research associate in Astronomy and associate set up the telescope in record time...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--American tanks, thrown into a breach in the French lines southwest of Pont du Fahs, have hurled back German armor with heavy losses in a battle which may have important bearing on the outcome of the Tunisian campaign, it was disclosed officially tonight...
Other newspapers were significantly mum on the matter, and the City was horrified at such bold Government interference with private enterprise. But uncompromising Vegetarian Cripps said coldly: "Inefficiency in management is as great a breach of duty to the country as absenteeism amongst the workers. The country cannot afford to and would not tolerate the waste of labor either by absenteeism or through bad direction or management...
Bannon becomes suspicious of a Danish square-rigger, Den Magre Kvind. His suspicions mount when the Daniel finds, in an open boat, three slaughtered Danes whom Holger mourns too loudly and whom Conrad deduces, from their pallor and their oily hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with...
...political triumph was made even clearer by the conduct of enemies. Adolf Hitler made a curious reference to the Kaiser's flight from Germany (see p. 36). The German radio clamored about "brutal assault . . . shameless breach . . . gangster methods . . . imperialistic aims . . . piece of impudence." In keeping, Tokyo broadcasters squeaked and hissed: "Illegal . . . international banditry ... a most ungentlemanly act." Bern reported that Rome was in a state of "stupefied pessimism," and Rome's radio spokesmen admitted that "the horizon is black. . . . Tonight the Italian people . . . is facing a terrible trial...